Inflammatory bowel disease in Jamaica

Annals of Gastroenterology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 239-242

  Penn, Kerry A ^a   Whittle, Dwight O ^a   Lee, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Jamaica; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; ENTERITIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; JAMAICA; LEFT SIDED DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PANCOLITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMOKING; TREND STUDY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 84879442062     PISSN: 11087471     EISSN: 17927463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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